Key Info

- Supreme, primordial, parentless creator diety

Brief Bio

Io Matua Kore is the supreme, primordial, and parentless creator deity in Māori cosmology, representing the ultimate source, the void (Te Kore), and pure potentiality from which all existence flows. Regarded as the "Parentless One," Io exists above all other gods (atua) and is considered the origin of all life and realms.